Documented drone wind turbine inspections also provide vital year-over-year information AND important chain of custody to support that will prevent or resolve contract warranty disputes and/or legitimize insurance claims.

By The Numbers – Reduce Wind Turbine Blade Inspection Costs & Down Time

Let’s assume that it takes 1 day to fully inspect a turbine using traditional rope methods and costs $3000. Let’s also assume that the WT will be down for 8 hrs thus the owner will lose $525 of lost energy production (10hrs, $0.10 per kWh, a capacity factor of 35%, and a nameplate capacity of 1500 kWh). A traditional rope inspection cost for one turbine is therefore $3525.

Using drone wind turbine inspections through Recon Aerial takes about 45 minutes of total downtime ($42) and costs approximately $792 per wind turbine.

A traditional rope inspection company would take 100 days (~$352,500) to inspect 100 wind turbines.

RECON AERIAL can inspect 100 wind turbines in about 12 days for $79,200.

Exceptional Value, Exceptionally Fast Results

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Damage Reviewed 3X by Qualified, Experienced Experts

Leading Edge

Recon Aerial Media has firmed up its relationships with several software service providers who specialize in AI-based damage recognition. Notably, we are working with Cornis. Cornis blade management team has quietly processed and analyzed 15,000 wind turbine sites’ data. We are very happy to offer our clients a solution built on expert onsite drone flight services AND this immense amount of machine learning and experience! Recon Aerials’ turn-key drone wind turbine inspections service is made even stronger than ever.

All damage found on wind turbine blades is vetted both by Cornis blade technicians and by Recon Aerial through manual review. However, we have integrated AI capability to provide incredibly fast damage detection results, complete with online collaboration, data aggregation and sharable inspection reports.

Our on-site services are very responsive and our drone wind turbine inspections reports are typically provided to the client within days of completing the inspection service.

We now offer autonomous drone wind turbine blade inspections to clients who would like to add our services at scale to improve the maintenance management of the newable asset fleet.

We also offer infrared blade inspections by drone in Canada upon special request.

Ultimately our goal is to identify wind turbine blade damage that can lead to failures BUT importantly to identify issues that degrade performance. The data we provide is used by manufacturers, owners/operators and O&M specialists to set blade maintenance priorities and to make timely, cost-effective repair decisions.

Though we have developed our in-house expertise to inspect and review wind turbine blade damage, we also retain solid working relationship with a leader in expert blade repair, with a premiere blade composites manufacturer and with SGS Global a leader in certification and verification who, in some cases, can undertake 3rd party independent reviews of our findings to ensure the highest standard of results reporting.

Recon Aerial Media is currently under subcontract to Siemens for wind turbine blade inspections throughout Canada. This massive undertaking will see us conduct up to 12000 blade inspections on over 1000+ wind turbines each year. This collective intelligence perfectly positions Recon to serve manufacturer’s owner/operators and O&M specialists alike throughout the wind industry across Canada and beyond.

Recon Aerial has the know-how, experience and work-flow procedures, to conduct wind turbine inspections with technical expertise. Our methodology surpasses some automated inspection processes, and we routinely gather data for a complete wind turbine inspection by drone with between 25-35 minutes of drone flight time.

Combining immense boots-on-the-ground operational experience with the data from prior blade inspections we can easily highlight lightning strikes, hairline cracks, white cracks, leading edge erosion, delamination and many other types of blade defects.

Get In Touch to Discuss Drone Wind Turbine Inspections

Get in touch to get pricing for your drone wind turbine inspection project, typically we provide a complete project proposal within 24hrs. Our pricing is fair and we have the commercial aerial expertise to get the work done right, with out clients’ interests front and center!

Please give us a call 1-833 UAV-WIND (1-833-828-9463), email or setup a project meeting to determine how easy it is to work with us and simply get things done!